If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story best. Even my articles are more literary than ordinary news stories.

Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.

As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.

If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.

As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.